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presented to an enlightened philanthropy evoked the charity- organization movement, with its manifold ramifications of dis- trict committees, and local visitors and helpers. Primarily for the sociological instruction of these, but also for utilizing the sources of social observation thus opened up, Professor C. S. Loch inaugurated lectures, teaching, and research work, which have grown into an organized " School of Sociology and Social Eco- nomics." This, under the guidance of Mr. E. J. Urwick, has specialized in aim, on problems of poverty and, in method, on field observation and tutorial instruction; but at the same time the school is organized for imparting a sociological training to all who are concerned with civic problems, whether in a purely administrative way or on the side of scientific observation, philan- thropic work, religious and educative effort, or political endeavor. Coincidently with the formation of the Sociological Society, a beginning was made of specifically sociological teaching inside the universities. To inaugurate this, a fund was placed at the dis- posal of the London University by Mr. J. Martin White, one of the founders of the Sociological Society. To superintend the experiment, a Sociological Committee of the Senate has been formed, whose deliberations are assisted by representatives of several extra-mural sociological interests. Under the scheme thus set on foot, lectures are being given, and postgraduate research is being carried on, so that a strong university school of sociology promises to result. The courses already given include " Civics " by Professor Geddes, " Anthropology " by Dr. Haddon, " Social Institutions " by Dr. Westermarck, and " Comparative Ethics" by Mr. L. T. Hobhouse this last being part of the work of the Sociological Society. Following on this initiative, there has been inaugurated a further development of sociological investigation by the donation of funds to the University of Lon- don, by Mr. Francis Galton, for the establishment of a Research Fellowship in National Eugenics. Mr. Galton's long-continued researches toward the establishment of eugenics in literal Eng- lish, good breeding as a branch of applied science, were resumed in a paper he read to the Sociological Society during its first ses- sion now published in the society's Sociological Papers, Vol. I